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Nope
.. No longer the case, the NIC was the last part of the GUID, but this changed
with a recent security patch (ie in the last year). And it has never applied on
Win2K (AFAIK) ie GUIDS are no longer sequential.
Guids
are a reasonable solution, but you then need to store it on the machine
...
NIC's
are guaranteed to be unique, as mention only with a network card -
else the internet will fail ...
Depends on what you want to use it for ...
Myles.
OLE GUIDs? (generated on the machine they are
intended to identify)
for machines with NICs part of the GUID will be the MAC
address of
the NIC
not sure what those bits are for non-NIC machines but the MS
folklore
is that the identifiers are unique regardless (with
very high
probablity).
Of course if this is for a copy protection scheme or
something
it's not crack proof because someone can just copy over the
id
from another machine. But for generating
unique DB keys by
workstation or something like that it is ok I
think
-ns
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:09
AM
Subject: [DUG]: Unique Machine
ID....
G'Day All,
I know this one has
been asked ad nauseum but.....
I need to come up with a unique
identifier for a machine. For my purposes a NIC address would be sufficient.
I am willing to wear the small chance that two network cards would have the
same NIC address. However the concern I do have is for a computer that does
not have a NIC but only a dial up connection. Obviously then there is no NIC
address? Can someone comment on that? Also, if anyone has a relatively
simple mechanism to obtain a unique ID for each machine I would be much
obliged.
--
Donovan
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